Missouri (see pronunciation) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. At 1.5 billion years old, the St. Francois Mountains are among the oldest in the world. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capital is Jefferson City.
Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged in the ninth century, built cities with pyramidal and other ceremonial mounds before declining in the 14th century. The Indigenous Osage and Missouria nations inhabited the area when European people arrived in the 17th century. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory, taking advantage of its productive agricultural plains; Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became large centers of industrialization and business.
Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Gateway to the West", the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State". Its culture blends elements of the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is the birthplace of the musical genres ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and the lesser-known St. Louis-style barbecue, can be found across the state and beyond. (Full article...)
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Maya Angelou ( AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. In 1982, Angelou was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made approximately 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. (Full article...)
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St. Louis Lambert International Airport (IATA: STL, ICAO: KSTL, FAA LID: STL) is the primary international airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Missouri. The airport covers 3,793 acres (1,535 ha) of land. STL is located 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown St. Louis in unincorporated St. Louis County between Berkeley and Bridgeton. The airport provides nonstop service to airports throughout the United States and to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. In 2024, it served nearly 16 million passengers to over 80 nonstop domestic and international destinations.
Named for Albert Bond Lambert, an Olympic medalist and prominent St. Louis aviator, the airport rose to international prominence in the 20th century thanks to its association with Charles Lindbergh, its groundbreaking air traffic control (ATC), its status as the primary hub of Trans World Airlines (TWA), and its iconic terminal. (Full article...)
The following are images from various Missouri-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
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Image 2Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
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Image 3Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 4Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
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Image 5African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
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Image 6The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
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Image 7Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
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Image 8A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 9Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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Image 10Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
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Image 122024 United States presidential election results by county Democratic Republican (from Missouri)
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Image 13Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
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Image 14Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks ( Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
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Image 15The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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Image 18Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 19The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
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Image 202024 United States presidential election results by county Democratic Republican (from Missouri)
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Image 21St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 22The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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Image 23The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
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Image 24Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
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Image 25Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
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Image 26Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
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Image 27Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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Image 28Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 29World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
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Image 32Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 33The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
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Image 34Mel Carnahan served as Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 35World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
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Image 36Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks ( Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
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Image 37Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 38Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlayed over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
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Image 39Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
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Image 41The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 42Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 46Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
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Image 48Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
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Image 50American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 51African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
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Image 52Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
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Image 53The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
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Image 54The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
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Image 55A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Image 56Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlayed over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
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Image 57The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
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